Show 263 - *Michael Heseltine Live*
Matt Forde's Political Party
The Political Party
4.7 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2022
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
A true political heavyweight delivers a knockout performance in this mesmerising interview. Lord Heseltine is as sharp and as funny as ever as he delivers characteristically forthright and nuanced assessments of Margaret Thatcher, John Major and, of course, Boris Johnson. This is one of the most captivating episodes of the Political Party ever recorded. Pour yourself a glass of Chablis Premier Cru and enjoy.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Political Party. Today's guest is Michael Hezzle Time. This |
| 0:12.7 | was recorded live at the Duchess Theatre. Thank you to everyone who came because all |
| 0:17.2 | of us that were there on this night witnessed and felt something very, very special. I've |
| 0:22.9 | had Michael on the show before and he's superb. Very few people that you meet in life that |
| 0:28.2 | you're in the same room as can captivate an audience in the way that Michael Hezzle |
| 0:32.6 | Time can. And that's for a number of reasons. Mainly of course because of his political |
| 0:39.2 | nows and the natural gravitas that he has. He's about seven foot tall, still sharp as |
| 0:45.8 | attack, still really funny, still with such a phenomenal political brain. But some politicians |
| 0:52.6 | just have that authority and he has it. He also has a wicked sense of humor as well |
| 0:56.4 | and we have a wonderful laugh together. And before we come on to Michael, don't forget |
| 1:00.1 | you can email the show political party podcast at gmail.com and don't forget you can get tickets |
| 1:04.2 | for all future shows at matford.com and tickets to my new tour, Clowns to the left and |
| 1:08.7 | me jokes to the right which starts in Exeter on the 17th of this month and goes to Glasgow, |
| 1:14.1 | Edinburgh, Norwich, Nottingham, various London dates, including at the South Bank Centre |
| 1:18.9 | on the 19th of February. Oh, where else? Oh, Leeds, Newcastle, Hexham, Annick, just all |
| 1:24.7 | over the place. Come and see me matford.com. And of course, my next two guests at the political |
| 1:29.1 | party on Monday the 21st of February, the amazing Ed Wiener Curry, that will be an absolute |
| 1:33.9 | riot. And two weeks after that on the 7th of March, Neil Kinock, the heavy weights that |
| 1:38.9 | come onto this show live, it's incredible. Anyway, emails, political party podcast at gmail.com |
| 1:46.2 | for your unusual encounters with politicians. This comes from an anonymous emailer. He says |
| 1:53.6 | several years ago, I was working a shift in the police with a current conservative MP who |
| 1:58.6 | was a special constable in the British transport police. One day, we were on patrol in central |
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